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This is an exploratory wiki site for an Erie 1 BOCES Career Improvement Program course taught by Denny Atkinson, Staff Development Specialist for Erie 2 Chautauqua Cattaraugus BOCES.

Attention E1 BOCES participants in wikis course: Please contact me if I've left any questions unanswered. The best way to do that is probably an email to: datkinson@e2ccb.org

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Welcome back!

Please visit February 24 page.
Here's an example of an RSS feed: The Word of the Day from the Oxford English Dictionary: rss url="http://www.oed.com/rss.xml" link="true" description="true" length="999" number="3" date="true"

...and this, hot off the press from: rss url="http://www.worldwidewords.org/rss/updates.xml " link="true" description="true" length="100" number="10"

...and this from the Buffalo News: rss url="http://www.buffalonews.com/103/index.rss" link="true" number="10"

Excellent job!
[|Harcourt Schools] You found this space...check with your colleagues...don't help them out- how else will they learn. (No, no, no...bad attitude. Your job is to teach them...If they didn't learn, you didn't do any teaching.)

Okay...is everybody here now? Take a look at this video:

[|Wikis in Plain English]


 * Well **...that was a lesson in stupid blocks...I'm going to assume that it didn't work (since it was at YouTube)...here's how you can get around that.

Try this one...it's from TeacherTube & perhaps it's not blocked: media type="custom" key="3084202"

Were you able to watch it? If so, that's good...but the video will have to be from a "SAFE" source...think TeacherTube, CNN, etc. If you still can't see the video in your school, here's the option of last resort...just upload the video (the actual file) to the site:

> (Be careful when you do this, however...you'll be treading onto the thin ice of the copyright laws. You'll need the permission of the copyright holder--good luck with that. You might just try to find a different source or file.) media type="file" key="WikisInPlainEnglish.mp4"
 * 1) Download the video from YouTube using [|http://keepvid.com]; save it as an mp4 file
 * 2) Load the file to your Wikispaces file storage space.
 * 1) Use the **Insert Images and Files** tool to add to your page

Now, move along...

...take a look at my What's a wiki? page.